New Tropical Cocktails 🍹🌴 & The Best Tropical Comedy Hang

**Thomas** (00:00:00:09 - 00:00:10:03): This is about to get intense. We have each come up with five brand new tropical drinks, and we're seeing who came up with the better batch. **Chip** (00:00:10:05 - 00:00:13:05): I feel like Tom Cruise and Cocktail right now. I'm ready to do this. **Thomas** (00:00:13:07 - 00:00:17:06): I mean, you are definitely not looking like Tom cruise and Cocktail. **Chip** (00:00:17:08 - 00:00:19:00): No, no. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:00:19:02 - 00:00:20:10): All right, you go first, bud. **Chip** (00:00:20:11 - 00:00:32:01): All right. We're going to start out with the Bahama Grand Mama. All right, a little take on the classic. It's just rum. Prune juice. Crushed cough drops. Garnished with three mothballs. **Thomas** (00:00:32:03 - 00:00:46:15): Oh, that has an audience. Okay. I'm coming in with the early check and chip. It's everybody's favorite tropical drink because it's a pineapple mimosa. And your room key is at the bottom, and it's 10 a.m.. Chip. **Chip** (00:00:46:17 - 00:01:02:15): Just room three and eight right there at the bottom. Love it. All right. My next one is a donno teeny. It's it's just a mai tai with some soda that you drink out of the hole. And a ukulele, that's all these tiny bubbles. And drinking a uke. **Thomas** (00:01:03:22 - 00:01:20:08): That is, a little Easter egg for all the burners out there who watch the episodes. Don Ho, an absolute legend. My next one is the Taurus tan. Okay. And this is going to be a delicious strawberry marg with a white cream floater. **Chip** (00:01:20:10 - 00:01:21:23): Oh, that one hurts. That one. **Thomas** (00:01:21:23 - 00:01:24:04): It does hurt. It's sunburnt baby. **Chip** (00:01:24:06 - 00:01:29:04): Yeah. All right. Speaking of sunburnt, my next one is just called the Global warming. I don't know. It's rum, lime juice and hot saltwater. Just a hot scotch. Okay. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:01:39:20 - 00:01:51:23): Right. Right out of the, that warm ocean. That is terrifying. Yeah. My next one is, a delicious treat for all who enjoy. It's Smurf squirt. **Chip** (00:01:52:01 - 00:01:53:07): Okay. I mean, **Thomas** (00:01:53:09 - 00:02:03:22): Most doctors can't even agree with what it is. No, but I can tell you that it's blue carrizo cream vodka and just a little. Bit of squirt. **Chip** (00:02:05:15 - 00:02:08:15): Just. I don't like the way you said that, but I'm drinking it. **Thomas** (00:02:08:17 - 00:02:10:06): Yeah, yeah. You dirty. Birdy. **Chip** (00:02:11:05 - 00:02:23:18): All right. My next one is the coke coconut. The coke coconut. It's literally just an eight ball shoved inside a coconut. That's all. There's no. There's no liquid. **Thomas** (00:02:23:20 - 00:02:38:09): And Escobar favorite. Yeah. My next one is the Ben and Jerry three way. It's just a pina colada with a scoop of ice cream in there. Drink that. It's. **Chip** (00:02:38:09 - 00:02:40:22): Drink it all down. All three of them love it. All right. My last one is the Hawaiian sucker Punch. Oh, it's just a glass of tequila and cherry Kool-Aid that you throw in somebody's face. **Thomas** (00:02:52:20 - 00:02:55:02): Like a Real Housewives favorite. I love it. **Chip** (00:02:55:03 - 00:02:56:10): Really is. **Thomas** (00:02:56:12 - 00:03:13:16): My last one, it's, literally the world's most expensive cocktail. It's called the tariff trough. And at the height of the tariff madness, it's going to be just a Jameson Manhattan. **Chip** (00:03:13:18 - 00:03:17:22): I think that's it. That's. That's what I'm drinking on the beach, buddy. Who won? I think I. **Thomas** (00:03:17:22 - 00:03:19:11): Think they need to decide, champ. **Chip** (00:03:19:11 - 00:03:25:17): Yeah. Let us know. What's your favorite cocktail or what's your cocktail that you would bring to a tropical island? **Thomas** (00:03:25:19 - 00:03:27:13): All right, the podcast. **Chip** (00:03:27:15 - 00:03:28:04): Here we go. **Thomas** (00:03:28:04 - 00:03:32:06): Stay tuned. Front desk. **Chip** (00:03:32:08 - 00:03:38:03): Hi, this is Mr. Chanter in room 308. Could somebody come up and refill my water bed? We don't have any water beds. Oh. Well, then I'm going to need some towels. Lots of towels. **Thomas** (00:03:48:05 - 00:04:05:15): Chap, it's episode 15, and this is not a joke. We got four times more views last week and downloads and all that stuff. Then any then, then all the weeks beforehand, something happened. It. **Chip** (00:04:05:17 - 00:04:14:07): I will apologize. You asking me to take my shirt off and, pose provocatively for those videos seems to have paid off. **Thomas** (00:04:14:09 - 00:04:15:03): It really. **Chip** (00:04:15:03 - 00:04:18:01): Did. The internet has. They've spoken. **Thomas** (00:04:18:01 - 00:04:22:12): The only people watching are our fans. They're only fans watching. **Chip** (00:04:22:15 - 00:04:33:08): Yes. That was also the, the other website. You you led me to now. But, hey, I'm doing some things I'm not proud of, but I am making over $40 a month. **Thomas** (00:04:33:09 - 00:04:53:06): And I mean pretty good. Yeah. And when you get up into that $50 a month territory, that's when you know you're really got something that's a business. Check. But no, it's I mean, I don't know, for four. We had four times more listeners, viewers than the whole previous 14 episodes combined. **Chip** (00:04:53:11 - 00:04:54:02): Yeah, I. **Thomas** (00:04:54:03 - 00:05:09:13): Like something happened. It was it was great. And I thank you so much for watching. And I can't tell you, like, where, this is the sunburnt podcast. We talk about comedy, tropical travel and, Yeah, I don't know, something's working, but. Chip, I've got a question for you. Are you one today? **Chip** (00:05:09:13 - 00:05:14:23): But I'm one today. I'm feeling it. I'm putting it on. Slathering it. Buddy. Feel slathering. **Thomas** (00:05:14:23 - 00:05:15:05): It. **Chip** (00:05:15:11 - 00:05:17:05): Block in that sun. **Thomas** (00:05:17:07 - 00:05:25:09): Lock in that sun. I actually got, I could have used some more of this this weekend. Daddy got his first sunburn. Of. The year. Memorial day weekend. **Chip** (00:05:28:12 - 00:05:36:08): It's literally this kick off of summer. We've been doing this podcast for weeks now, literally about sunburn. And you dropped the ball. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:05:36:09 - 00:05:43:08): No, I went out there, was playing, I was playing pickleball with the Pickle Boys. Yeah. We, we, you. **Chip** (00:05:43:11 - 00:05:48:18): Know, you're on are you're pickleball guy. Have you played before or is this is this a regular thing or is this you just try it out. **Thomas** (00:05:48:22 - 00:05:50:06): It's a regular thing. It's a. **Chip** (00:05:50:06 - 00:06:11:13): Real thing. Okay? I like I feel like you bury the lead, and I want to hear about this sunburn, but you just kind of threw it out there. You're just like. So I was playing pickleball the other day, like, that's a that's a conversation you have to ease into you like a chip. Oh, have a seat. I have, I have joined the military or, you know, Chip, I need to tell you something. I have been dabbling in hardcore drugs. You mean, like you have to sit. You have to. You have to bring it out. You have to lay it on there. But you're just like I was playing pickleball the other day. All right? Tommy's in a new light. I'm not saying it's a bad light by any stretch. It's just I was not mentally prepared for you just to kind of, like, drop that knowledge. **Thomas** (00:06:28:22 - 00:06:32:04): I'm actually shocked. I haven't mentioned the pickleball before. **Chip** (00:06:32:05 - 00:06:33:12): No, I didn't know that was a thing. **Thomas** (00:06:33:12 - 00:06:36:03): Like all male friends. **Chip** (00:06:36:08 - 00:06:36:23): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:06:37:01 - 00:06:45:23): They're, three other dudes and we literally barely know each other. But our wives are very good friends. **Chip** (00:06:46:01 - 00:06:50:14): Yeah. That's that. That feels about right where you just got to shove together by default. **Thomas** (00:06:50:15 - 00:06:55:15): That is what, male friendship that starts after the age of 40 looks like. It's like we know each other's names. I'm getting clarity on what they do. Per for professions. Not quite sure. As they are very, very, you know, also confused about what I do, probably. **Chip** (00:07:14:23 - 00:07:19:16): I mean, you're saying that they also don't have a podcast with a mid-tier comedian? **Thomas** (00:07:21:03 - 00:07:25:09): No. Actually, a couple of them do do something with starving. **Chip** (00:07:25:10 - 00:07:26:03): Okay, great. **Thomas** (00:07:26:05 - 00:07:28:09): They're working with people that move a couple more tickets. **Chip** (00:07:28:09 - 00:07:33:02): Yeah, just just a handful more. Yeah. So, wait. So. Okay. How long you've been playing pickleball? I will say. **Thomas** (00:07:34:21 - 00:07:36:12): I mean, I don't know, it's like. Probably. 4 or 5 months, maybe. **Chip** (00:07:39:04 - 00:07:51:16): Wow, look at you. I. Okay, you're. I wouldn't want to say anything. Your forearms have been coming together quite well. I've noticed them getting the whole pop up Popeye arms there. I'm feeling it. And then now. Now I know the reason why. Let me ask you, is pickleball always doubles? **Thomas** (00:07:55:11 - 00:08:05:05): The way we play it, I've. See, I've seen people out there, because the way it works out is they can take a tennis court and, like, put four pickleball courts on it. So. **Chip** (00:08:05:07 - 00:08:08:03): By the way, ask somebody who plays tennis. Yeah. I've noticed. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:08:10:01 - 00:08:29:00): It's really tough to play when you got four games. Also sharing your court. Right. But I, I have seen people play singles, but we, we just do the doubles, and we're also, like, getting fairly competent on the real rules at this point. Like, we were basically playing doubles ping pong at the beginning. **Chip** (00:08:29:05 - 00:08:30:00): Right. **Thomas** (00:08:30:02 - 00:08:35:00): But now, you know, we got a little bit of strategy, a little bit of technique. Yeah. It's fun. **Chip** (00:08:35:00 - 00:08:39:07): Do you have the same partner every time or we switch switching it up. I think you're supposed to. **Thomas** (00:08:39:07 - 00:09:01:05): Switch it up, but, like, the. This is so stupid. Nobody wants to hear about what a bunch of dudes do, but we call it classic teams. And like we do in classic teams and classic teams is just me and the same guy playing against the other two guys. It's like literally randomly how we played the first time. It's the only way we've ever played. I've never yeah, I've never played with anybody. I maybe we switch it up. One time we had a sub and we switch things up, but that it's the same two dudes playing the same two dudes and we're pretty evenly matched at this point. **Chip** (00:09:17:07 - 00:09:24:12): Yeah, I love it, man. I'm very proud of you. Although I will say, not so proud. So we got a little we got a little color playing this time. **Thomas** (00:09:24:14 - 00:09:44:17): Oh, yeah. So we literally we I didn't know we were double it up. I didn't know we were gone for two hours. Yeah. Okay. I get out there I put on sun protection earlier in the day it was cloudy. We got a little gray going here. The sun wasn't even out. I don't feel pain, but my wife has made fun of me like 15 times. **Chip** (00:09:44:19 - 00:09:45:07): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:09:45:08 - 00:09:54:08): She's like you host the sunburnt podcast. Yeah. And on the first day of summer you got went out there and just got lobster necked. **Chip** (00:09:54:10 - 00:09:56:20): You just became a pink boy. That's. Yeah I'm a pink pickle buddy. I'm a pink pickler man. Did did the other guys get it. You know. Are they. **Thomas** (00:10:03:02 - 00:10:19:00): No. Like, I think at one point I even, like I didn't say it out loud, but it's a cloudy day and one of the, like, full on powder makeup, like, full on Casper the ghosts. Just white all over his face. And I'm just, like, amateur for the guy. Like, Really search for some protection and all these clouds. And then we went a little bit long, and I thought it was to the point where we weren't wearing the shades. Chip. Right. The shades. Not necessary. But those UV rays, they snuck through, they zapped me. And, this this is where I'm at. **Chip** (00:10:38:08 - 00:10:46:19): Yeah, that's the biggest. I have read this. I've done the research. The biggest pickleball injury out there today is sunburn. That's all it is. **Thomas** (00:10:46:20 - 00:10:58:09): Yeah, well, I'll tell you what. It won't be. It won't be hammies. Because before I pickle, I'm going 20 straight minutes just on those hammers. And by the way, did you get that link? Did you get that link I sent you about the hammer yoga? **Chip** (00:10:58:11 - 00:11:16:04): I did, I have to start it. I have, I all all told, I did get it and I have to join. I have to sign up for that thing. You get a free trial or whatever it is. Yeah, but you have, you have 100%, inspired me. I've definitely been working those Hammies have been working those legs. I've been stretching. Finally, I feel a little opened up. I need to get more. But this past week, I have been stretching. I've been feeling good. I'm going for my first run in a while, right after this podcast. So either, I'm going to be coming back next episode feeling good, or there's going to be major injury, on one of the twos happening, and we're just gonna start. You're going to watch next episode, see what happens. **Thomas** (00:11:38:02 - 00:11:49:21): Oh my God. All right. I mean, so, now we've covered our minor athletic achievements. Like, I just the the bare minimum of physical fitness. **Chip** (00:11:49:23 - 00:12:08:01): Oh, I did okay. I was walking to that. I think I have to mention this before my wife and I, we will, illegally, just just say our crimes out loud. Illegally throw a cocktail into a solo cup each, and walk down to the diner. It's about a mile and a half away. It's about 15 blocks away. It's a it's a beautiful night. We'll just throw that in or just walk with those, with those road drinks and just walk down and and then go to the diner. And we were walking down. I had my drink in my hand the other night, and, these, three in as we were walking down there was this rate is a stoop, you know. You know, it's stoop. Sorry. But it was like it was a bigger stoop. It was like, almost like a little patio, up a couple of steps. And these, three young Mexican boys were playing soccer on this little, you know, eight by four foot stoop. You know, they're just kicking it back and forth. Yeah, it's like a blast. Of course, as soon as we walked past, the ball came up, bounced onto the sidewalk in front of me, and daddy's got his drink in his hand. But for these seven year old boys, I am not touching the ball with my hands. I'm not doing it. And I kicked it up. Need it a couple of times. Boom. Hacky sack that soccer ball up onto the stoop and they cheered for me. Talk about athletic prowess right here, buddy. I am. I'm going to I'm going to dine off of that story for months. **Thomas** (00:13:16:02 - 00:13:17:22): Jeff Chantry of the jungle cat. **Chip** (00:13:18:01 - 00:13:35:06): I this all I, I don't even, I don't even know why I'm running today. I should just live on that story. I should just sit around, eat Fig Newtons and just call people I haven't talked to in years and tell them that story that I. I kicked the soccer ball after bouncing it a couple of times, played it back onto their stoop for. **Thomas** (00:13:35:06 - 00:13:39:05): The drink, didn't spill, I thought. I thought for sure that's where this was going. **Chip** (00:13:39:06 - 00:13:43:22): Not a drop baby. That Greyhound stayed in the solo Cup. Oh my god. **Thomas** (00:13:45:00 - 00:13:47:10): Champ, a neighborhood legend. **Chip** (00:13:47:12 - 00:14:00:23): I think I'm becoming a neighborhood. Yeah, yeah. Unfortunately, it wasn't my neighborhood if. Because if it was the kids in my neighborhood, they would probably just yelled at me and made me feel terrible about myself. So, yeah, these were these sweet, sweet boys that I was that I was kicking the ball back for. **Thomas** (00:14:00:23 - 00:14:10:20): Well, it sounds like you're probably in some version of, like, a modern sandlot. I think it's like the soccer on the stoop. Neighborhood soccer gang. **Chip** (00:14:10:22 - 00:14:11:06): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:14:11:08 - 00:14:21:06): You're the fun neighbor. The one they were always scared of. But then they saw you with a stiff buzz. And you, Pele, at a ball right back. Right back in their yard. **Chip** (00:14:21:11 - 00:14:26:06): Yeah. I'm like that giant dog with a margarita in his bowl. That's basically. It's. What was his name? Brutus. I'm going to be honest with you. I only ever watch The Sandlot once in my life. And it was a couple years ago, so I didn't see it as a kid. I was I was a little bit. We got. I got a couple years older on you, so, like, I just, I just sort of missed it. So I'm not super well-versed on the ins and outs of that. **Thomas** (00:14:46:16 - 00:14:53:17): Make sense? You weren't you weren't a freshman in college watching children's baseball movies. I get it. I mean, that feels that feels right. **Chip** (00:14:53:19 - 00:15:03:20): By the way, children's baseball movies sounds like the name of a podcast that gets banned very quickly on on on Spotify. **Thomas** (00:15:03:22 - 00:15:05:16): Yeah. Spotify is not going to let that fly. **Chip** (00:15:05:22 - 00:15:07:02): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:15:07:04 - 00:15:08:16): Well, Chip, dude. **Chip** (00:15:08:18 - 00:15:11:02): How often do you play pickleball? By the way? Is this a weekly thing? **Thomas** (00:15:11:07 - 00:15:24:14): It's a weekly thing. I'm going to miss my first week in a long time. Next weekend. Why? We're we're going to be, I mean, you've been there with me before the the beautiful city of San Diego. Chip. **Chip** (00:15:24:15 - 00:15:25:07): San Diego. **Thomas** (00:15:25:09 - 00:15:29:01): I just can't get enough of San Diego during the summer. **Chip** (00:15:29:03 - 00:15:36:09): I got to get back to San Diego, I will admit, because it was during the pandemic. I was there for your wedding. We were at the beautiful the Pine Place. **Thomas** (00:15:36:11 - 00:15:37:13): The. Yeah, Torrey Pines. **Chip** (00:15:37:16 - 00:15:52:03): Torrey Pines, the golf course on the ocean. I mean, just amazing. I never actually ventured into San Diego proper, which, I know it's great. It's just looks amazing. Everything sounds great, but, yeah, I have to, I got to check it out, but. Yeah. Oh, you going back down, man? Yeah. You saw one of the. **Thomas** (00:15:53:11 - 00:15:58:21): More delightful parts, chap. There's it. Just keep that memory. Keep that memory until you come back out again. **Chip** (00:15:58:22 - 00:16:03:00): We had a lot of fun at your rehearsal dinner out on that patio. **Thomas** (00:16:03:00 - 00:16:03:15): Yeah. **Chip** (00:16:03:17 - 00:16:06:05): Food was great. Drinks were good. They were flowing. **Thomas** (00:16:06:07 - 00:16:09:05): That was that. That kind of the height of Covid. **Chip** (00:16:09:07 - 00:16:11:18): It really was. So was that 2021 is that. **Thomas** (00:16:11:21 - 00:16:17:11): It was 2021? Yeah. Maybe not the height of Covid. It was like but it was definitely still have. **Chip** (00:16:17:12 - 00:16:17:19): Covid. **Thomas** (00:16:17:19 - 00:16:18:22): Here in California. **Chip** (00:16:19:03 - 00:16:19:09): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:16:19:09 - 00:16:32:21): So it was like a big social event where people came together and you got to interact with like two different families, which you hadn't really met before. You were kind of rolling solo. You did? Yeah. **Chip** (00:16:32:23 - 00:16:37:00): I was there with my buddy Mark, but he didn't. He was just, you know, staying back. He was. Yeah, he was too. **Thomas** (00:16:37:00 - 00:16:48:20): He was too smart to come try and make up advice people. And you got to make small talk with people who hadn't talked to anybody they didn't know in a year and a half. **Chip** (00:16:48:22 - 00:17:08:00): It was wild because it was. And it was great because, like, I got to meet your family. I got to meet your brother and your parents, who were delightful. And it was a lot of fun, but it was like, it's like when you when you see those videos and there's like sweet, sad music in the background of a of a of a dog, like a pitbull that somebody found under a house. Yeah. He's just in a pen. And they just have to, like, give him little pieces of kibble for him to, like, come out of his corner. And then it just cuts to him, like running around happily in the new backyard and everything. Yeah. Like, it was still in that. Give him a little kibble piece where we're just looking at each other like, hey, what's what's up? You see Tiger King like, that's all. **Thomas** (00:17:27:05 - 00:17:30:12): That's all? Yeah, it was just. It was like watching a baby step. **Chip** (00:17:30:12 - 00:17:41:08): Away with my friends. You're in. Oh, yeah, I would say with my friends and loved ones not. But not to mention people at a wedding rehearsal dinner who I've never spoken to in my life. **Thomas** (00:17:41:10 - 00:17:51:19): Yeah. And they they hadn't spoken to anybody. It was. It was an experience, to be sure. But. Yeah. A really great time. A beautiful out outdoor experience. **Chip** (00:17:51:20 - 00:17:52:17): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:17:52:19 - 00:18:01:11): We had that nice little patio there and, Yeah, man. So that that's it. That that'll get me to miss, miss a weekend with the pickle boys. **Chip** (00:18:01:13 - 00:18:14:02): That's right. It's as long as they have a fill in, unless you play. You know, Canadian pickleball is right. You can play Canadian. Canadian dubs. It's a it's a tennis thing where Canadian doubles. You play one person on one side, two people on the other side. So it's one on two. Two on. Oh cheating. Cheating. Yeah. So it's fun. No, but you you play, you I guess I don't know if pickleball works, but like, you know how, like, there's one in tennis. There's, like, the doubles allies, like. Yeah. Court that are wider and then the singles are smaller. So when you're on doubles, you have to cover the whole doubles. When you're at singles, you don't have to cover the singles. So it's you play, you play by different rules. It's still it's still sounds. **Thomas** (00:18:36:13 - 00:18:36:23): Like. **Chip** (00:18:37:01 - 00:18:42:08): It's just like Canada, the United States today, when you cross the border, there's some there's some different rules. So there. **Thomas** (00:18:42:22 - 00:18:53:12): Certainly are especially involving alcohol. Chip, I loved, I loved our little tropical drink contest. Chip. **Chip** (00:18:53:14 - 00:19:00:14): I'm ready for one of those right now, I think. I think I need some Smurf squirt right at you. Looked like you. **Thomas** (00:19:01:07 - 00:19:05:21): Use an early check in. It's very early. It's very early. For those who don't know. **Chip** (00:19:05:23 - 00:19:11:07): That. Is that, that does feel really good. Just, I think it was a pineapple. Just. It's just at the bottom of it. Just a. **Thomas** (00:19:11:07 - 00:19:12:22): Little, pineapple mimosa. A little vitamin C. In there. **Chip** (00:19:14:13 - 00:19:16:16): Get my scurvy thrown out the way. Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:19:17:19 - 00:19:18:21): I need to do a scurvy. **Chip** (00:19:19:02 - 00:19:20:07): Yeah, not at all. **Thomas** (00:19:20:09 - 00:19:31:18): Buddy. Well, it's, it's big time. Dude, we are 182 days away from Chip, chance, trees, Thanksgiving and Paradise. **Chip** (00:19:31:20 - 00:19:50:11): It hit me last night as we're recording. It hit me last night that we're. We're literally six months out from the date November 26th. It was I it's it's it's just it's crazy. It's real. It's going to happen right now I kind of a now I've, I've told like some people about it but like I'm really starting to announce it on social media like, come on out to Hawaii. I'm doing two shows at the Balloon Out, the jazz club in Waikiki. And, we got some people coming out to come see us, like, not just to come see us, but like, come experience Hawaii with us. It's my first time out there. And then. Yeah, I'm going to do to do the new hour. It's going to be a lot of fun. **Thomas** (00:20:05:04 - 00:20:26:19): To do it, and I, I can't express enough how this is just literally a dream. We had and a goal we set as friends to do this thing in Hawaii. So if you want to be part of something, rooted in friendship, rooted in comedy, rooted in tropical travel, come on out with us. Help make our dreams come true. It's going to be fun regardless. We have already got some tickets moving. People are coming. And then also, like, we're we're very excited for the people of Hawaii, the people that live there to come join us. But we're also very excited for people to take control of their Thanksgiving break. Yeah, come on out to Hawaii with us and help, like, make this dream come true, because it'll be more fun if we pack that thing out for sure. Yeah, and they'll be like, kind of more people around who are, in the same boat as you. You love comedy, love travel. **Chip** (00:21:02:10 - 00:21:07:11): I love to it's like whenever I it's like the friend of a friend notion. **Thomas** (00:21:07:13 - 00:21:08:06): Yeah. **Chip** (00:21:08:07 - 00:21:28:08): Okay. Sure. Like I always. Okay, so I had. I don't like to socialize. Thomas. I'm not, you know, super like, hey, life of the party. As most comedians are. Most people think comedians that we're the life of the party. We're the fun guys. We're like the loud ones. Lampshade on her head. And it's like we're. We're the guys sitting in the corner making fun of everybody else, just quietly sulking. And I had I had a lot of friends who lived up in Hoboken, new Jersey and New York City right after I graduated college. And I would go out to these bars or whatever with my friends from home in Philadelphia and just, like, not talk to anybody like Adam. Right? But they would have the up in Hoboken. I would go up like one weekend a month. I would go up and they would rent out the back room of a bar and it would just but then you sort of you paid a cover. So like they made their money back and it was, you know, you got an open bar for a while, whatever. But everybody in that bar, it was literally like the bar in the rehearsal in the first season. Nathan Fielder action where like, it's a controlled environment where everybody kind of like, everybody knows one of the three guys that put this on. It's like, oh, you're Adam's cousin. Oh, you went to high school with Ray. Like, oh, so it's like I was. I could be the life party. I could talk to girls, which I could never do because it's like there was always an end. It wasn't just like, yeah, you know, so all that to say, it's like, yeah, you can go to Hawaii, do this thing, but you're not just there with your significant other or by yourself or with a friend or two. It's like you'll be there by yourself. You have time to do that. But then there's also going to be a group of people that are sort of like on this pilgrimage together, and where it's like, oh yeah, hey, we're all going to go, I don't even know what you do. And and yeah, we're going to go play pickleball together. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:22:47:19 - 00:22:52:06): You're going to show up here and be like, is that one of the pickleball ways that. Oh my God, that's one of the pick. Can I get your autograph? Are you talking? **Chip** (00:22:55:18 - 00:22:57:06): This is doubles, partner. **Thomas** (00:22:57:07 - 00:23:01:18): I'm just saying anything could happen. No. And for legal reasons, I have to say. The only pickleball that for sure will be there is me. **Chip** (00:23:07:05 - 00:23:07:13): Okay. **Thomas** (00:23:07:18 - 00:23:10:21): All right, but I'm going to throw it out. There is maybe. **Chip** (00:23:10:23 - 00:23:11:21): Maybe the some other pickleball. **Thomas** (00:23:12:00 - 00:23:12:23): Maybe my boys. **Chip** (00:23:13:03 - 00:23:23:16): I think t shirts are going to be made pickleball a t shirts. Right now I'm just again. That's up to you and your three gentlemen friends, but I, I, I walk around, pick a boy t shirt. **Thomas** (00:23:23:18 - 00:23:50:18): That would be absolutely preposterous that, three dudes who do, or four dudes who do something that people do all the time. If that became a thing after trying so hard to make so many things, things over my entertainment career, trying to create TV shows, trying to get movies made, doing all that stuff, if the thing that took off to the point where it became a popular t shirt is my weekly pickleball game. **Chip** (00:23:50:22 - 00:23:52:03): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:23:52:04 - 00:23:55:22): I would just know that everything I've been doing it wrong the whole time. **Chip** (00:23:55:22 - 00:24:00:07): Do you have your own pickleball paddle? What do they call it, a racket, a paddle? Yeah. Do you have, like, you went out and purchased one? **Thomas** (00:24:03:17 - 00:24:04:23): I went and got two, actually. Before I even. Started playing. Like me two. **Chip** (00:24:07:11 - 00:24:12:18): You got one for each hand. Like you're a like. Yeah, like like you're an air traffic controller kind of situation. **Thomas** (00:24:12:20 - 00:24:15:14): Yeah. It's like, Edward pickleball hands. Is. Duct tape. **Chip** (00:24:17:19 - 00:24:32:08): On you. Duct tape them on and like, for like 48 hours, you just because you want to make sure that you understand what it feels like and you're just, you're trying to, like, make coffee or just, like, make the bed. And Alex, your wife is just trying to help you, and you're like, I need to learn. How to do it myself. Are you like these freakish pickleball heads? They need to be a part of me. **Thomas** (00:24:41:07 - 00:24:44:20): Yeah, I it's called empathy, chip. And you got to work at it. **Chip** (00:24:44:22 - 00:24:59:12): Yeah, yeah. Jack, Jared, Tyler and Clay are also doing this at home. I just came up with the names for those guys. The other three guys they're doing at home, too, and, like. But you just have to. You're just learning to live life. You're driving your car with just the pickleball. **Thomas** (00:24:59:13 - 00:24:59:20): Yeah. **Chip** (00:24:59:21 - 00:25:02:23): Racket in your hand. Is it a racket or paddle? **Thomas** (00:25:03:01 - 00:25:09:17): And the only thing I like is driving because I have paddle shifters on my car, and it works with my hands. Yeah. Like this car's the only thing that gets me. **Chip** (00:25:13:01 - 00:25:18:04): Right. You're just. You're just giving somebody the finger, but somebody is like. Did that guy wave a pickleball paddle? Eddie? I know as I was cutting him off. **Thomas** (00:25:22:17 - 00:25:28:03): Yeah. I mean, sure, this could be. This could be a whole lifestyle. I could be a pickle man. **Chip** (00:25:28:05 - 00:25:29:12): I think so, yeah. **Thomas** (00:25:29:13 - 00:25:32:22): I could ignore the fingers God gave me and just paddle it up. **Chip** (00:25:33:00 - 00:25:33:13): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:25:33:15 - 00:25:56:19): And feel how the paddle handed live. No, it's, I went on ChatGPT and I got a set, so me and my wife could play together. But when you got the baby, all of a sudden, like, anything me and her are going to do together, where it's not like with the baby. Cost a ton of money, like you got babysitters and that kind of stuff. And it's just like, we'd probably rather do a dinner or something, and, she she plays more tennis anyways, so we just kind of, divide and conquer there, but is. **Chip** (00:26:07:01 - 00:26:13:19): There a standard paddle like that everybody gets or they're like tiers of like, this is the expensive one. This is the cheaper I need. **Thomas** (00:26:13:19 - 00:26:14:12): Oh, it's ship. **Chip** (00:26:14:15 - 00:26:16:02): I need to know everything about this right now. Tom. **Thomas** (00:26:16:08 - 00:26:25:01): You I mean, this is just I had all those viewers we got last week or just evaporating. So we're we're moving on quickly. But I will. **Chip** (00:26:25:01 - 00:26:32:21): Say, okay. Are you. You were to tell me that there isn't a pickleball podcast out. There has to be a very popular pickleball podcast right now. **Thomas** (00:26:33:01 - 00:26:37:04): I'm going to tell you there is a pickleball television channel. Oh my God, it's just. **Chip** (00:26:39:01 - 00:26:49:06): This. It's okay. This is why we're podcasting right now. Because we can't make television shows. Because you know who has a TV show? Pickleball. **Thomas** (00:26:49:08 - 00:27:05:14): Yeah, there's a GoPro. It's set up on the side. They're playing. Yeah, it's gentlemen playing pickleball. I'm sure they're very good. I've never seen it. Right. But my father in law, big tennis head. Okay. T to the, not the Tennis Channel, but the Tennis Channel to. **Chip** (00:27:05:20 - 00:27:08:05): The, the the Terminator movie from the. **Thomas** (00:27:08:05 - 00:27:11:09): Terminator movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Would be mine, When they don't have tennis replace play on T2, it's the pickleball channel, and it's just gentlemen playing pickleball, and the paddles can get very expensive. They can also be very reasonable. Yeah. This week, as a matter of fact, two of the pickle boys brought new paddles, and they looked intense. But, sometimes the more expensive they get, like, the more specific they're just like, with normal tennis rackets. There's some for spin and some for power, right? It's like control spin or power, like, those are kind of the three things your optimizing for. **Chip** (00:27:49:22 - 00:27:50:02): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:27:50:04 - 00:27:58:05): And if you're not a master at tennis, having a racket that does anything other than what you're used to is going to be a problem, you know? **Chip** (00:27:58:11 - 00:27:58:19): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:27:59:00 - 00:28:07:20): All right. So I've got the straight down the middle beginner's paddle. And I still screw up constantly. **Chip** (00:28:08:00 - 00:28:17:14): So I, I'm into it. I'm, I'm I want to fall I maybe you don't want to talk about this on the podcast anymore but I'm, I personally am following your pickleball journey. Well come, come play. **Thomas** (00:28:18:13 - 00:28:19:10): Pickleball, dude. **Chip** (00:28:19:10 - 00:28:27:01): I'm ready, I'm ready. Come out here. I'm a tennis purist, but I'm going to do this. Yeah, yeah, you and I, by the way, I you watch a little bit of tennis, right? **Thomas** (00:28:27:03 - 00:28:30:07): I watch all the tennis. It's Roland Garros right now, dude. **Chip** (00:28:30:09 - 00:28:46:21): Yeah, yeah. I'm, I haven't watched in the last few years. I haven't been to it. I'm telling myself right now the people I'm, I'm going to go hardcore on Wimbledon this year. I'm going to I'm going to start it up mid-June. It's usually mid-June ish. Yeah. And, I need to get back into it because I just, I love it when I, when I watch it. I think I told Mr. Sammy if I told the story before, but I did. I did reiterate, like, I felt like at a sporting person for the first time in life when I was in Ireland a couple of years ago. No. Okay, so it was it. I actually have a oh, I'll tell you this, a guy I met last year, actually at the, we'll give him a shout out. Brian, at the, at the goose show I went to last year, but I. **Thomas** (00:29:12:09 - 00:29:13:02): Believe. **Chip** (00:29:13:04 - 00:29:28:01): We're going to he and, his girlfriend are in, Dingle right now. Or, like they were, they were in. So much. And I was like, yeah, just on this. I was like, My God, you're in Indigo right now. And, yeah. And he was he was at Kenny's. But, so when I. Went to catch it. Was the first time, the the answer. Yeah. I because I was like, hey, you got to go to Kennedy's. And he's like, dude, we were there twice already. **Thomas** (00:29:37:07 - 00:29:40:03): And you know, he's he's got a scoop. And McConnell's. **Chip** (00:29:40:03 - 00:29:46:10): Yes. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean he he might have been playing pickleball there. I don't, I don't know. Yeah I don't see a. **Thomas** (00:29:46:10 - 00:29:51:16): Lot of regulation courts when I was there. But pickleball didn't exist yet. This was seven years ago. **Chip** (00:29:51:18 - 00:30:16:03): Yeah. But, long story long, I right after we were in Dingle. We when we were over there, we went up to Galway, which is just like my second favorite place in Ireland. And, you went we went to this thatched roof pub right outside of Galway. You had to walk, like, maybe like a mile, but it was like right there, and it's like the oldest or the only thatched roof pub remaining or whatever. But it was just, it was this great little pub and again, I, I watch Eagles games, I, I'll go to a handful of Phillies games. Like I can literally walk to the stadiums and I go to a handful of games, a year. I'm going to a game this Friday, but I don't follow it too well. I, I'm not a huge like, I don't know, statistics. I don't know every single rule. Like I like sports, but I just, I'm not just I'm not like super into all the ins and outs. I think you're. **Thomas** (00:30:39:17 - 00:30:46:03): Saying that for a Philly baseline I have. Yes. I've been to your house and we shut it all down to watch a Phillies game. **Chip** (00:30:46:03 - 00:30:59:04): Chip, that is true. Okay. Yeah, that that is 100% true. We did do that. They was the playoffs though. It was it was the playoffs okay. So yes Philly baseline anywhere else I'm a fanatical sports fan. But for Philly I'm yeah. I'm I'm just. **Thomas** (00:31:00:02 - 00:31:01:14): Like what are you talking about. Your wife. Ran into the house and just. Like made a beeline for the TV after grabbing some of the what were those like? You had those local canned cocktails? I remember we were drinking those that night. **Chip** (00:31:12:02 - 00:31:13:05): That was top dogs, baby. **Thomas** (00:31:13:09 - 00:31:14:09): Oh, yeah. Top dogs. That was the top dogs. Oh, whiskey. Lemonade. **Chip** (00:31:16:13 - 00:31:24:07): I think those that the top dog is what I was. I was drinking when I, did that crazy, soccer maneuver, with those kids. Oh, yeah. I got a dog and a top dog. Yeah. Road top. **Thomas** (00:31:28:14 - 00:31:29:09): Dog on. **Chip** (00:31:29:11 - 00:31:30:22): Top. I was top dog. How good a. **Thomas** (00:31:31:11 - 00:31:35:02): Commercial would that be for a top dog? That's like just the Mentos. Like the problem. But I'm just. I was just awesome. **Chip** (00:31:38:13 - 00:31:50:22): And I think it's two. It has to be like a double screen. Or like what? It's the slo mo of what I think happened in my head. Right. You know what I mean? And then just the reality of what actually happened. Just just the idea of like the. **Thomas** (00:31:54:17 - 00:31:55:16): Older white. Guy, hero, neighborhood hero, he's just like, yeah, walking around as. Bed Head is. Drinking a cocktail in the afternoon on his street and a bunch of kids. He's like, he's like, I saved their day. Yeah, I did it. **Chip** (00:32:14:04 - 00:32:23:20): And it's just like, I'm just kicking the ball against the wall and like, I almost get hit by a car and then it's just their parents quickly just pulling them inside the house, away from me. **Thomas** (00:32:23:22 - 00:32:47:08): And speaking of Top Dog, yeah, we've talked a lot about probably some would say more than we should have. About 90s t shirts. Yes, but when I was in junior high, trying to figure out what my brand was, what my identity was, how fashion was going to work. Top dog. Dude, that was that was my style. **Chip** (00:32:47:14 - 00:32:50:15): I forget. Yeah. Top dog, big dog. Remember? Big dogs? **Thomas** (00:32:50:17 - 00:32:51:22): Yeah. Yep. **Chip** (00:32:51:23 - 00:32:52:16): Yep. **Thomas** (00:32:52:17 - 00:33:06:10): Big big dog wasn't quite. It wasn't a bit of me. Yeah, but Top Dog, it was the way the dogs were drawn, the messages. They were insanely expensive for me at the time, but I really resonated with that brand. You look like. **Chip** (00:33:06:10 - 00:33:09:03): A top dog. Like I'm looking at. I see Thomas O'Brien. I'm like, he's a top dog. **Thomas** (00:33:09:03 - 00:33:18:11): I feel like a top dog sometimes. And I enjoy a top dog cocktail. So, yeah. Shout out to the people at the Top Dog. Can't cocktail distillery. **Chip** (00:33:18:11 - 00:33:18:18): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:33:18:18 - 00:33:20:02): Can't doing good work. **Chip** (00:33:20:04 - 00:33:42:00): So by the way, going back to the So Dingle Galway thatched roof pub for the first time my life, I felt like a fan because it was door. It was. I think it was actually the 4th of July when we were there. I think it was that day, and Wimbledon was happening and, so maybe it was a little before, I don't know, but Wimbledon was on TV at this Irish thatched roof pub in Galway. Yeah. And there was a bunch of old guys sitting there watching Wimbledon, watching the match. We're at a table and then they're sitting at the bar and they're watching it as if old guys in Philly are watching a Phillies game or an Eagles game. And like kind of yelling at the screen, they were little more subdued. They're Irish, they're better than us, but they they're more eloquent. But they're just like talking about like, oh, he's his, you know, his his second serve percentage is way down. He can't do that, you know. And I went up to get a drink, like to get around. And then I just sat down for like 15 minutes and started talking to these old guys about tennis, about like, the ins and outs be like, yeah, sir, percentage is way down. His backhand isn't looking good. And like it was something that I because I played tennis through college. It's the one sport that I know something about. And it was like for the first time, my life. Like I'm not just sitting at the sports bar listening to all my buddies talk about, you know, this formation or this play or this running back or whatever, where I'm just sort of following the game a little bit. Like I knew the ins and outs, and it was the only time in my life where I was like, I feel like a sport boarding expert right now. And it was the greatest thing in world. Watching Wimbledon at an old bar in Galway with a bunch of old Irishmen, it was it was the greatest. It was it was one of the highlights of my life that I felt most proud of myself. **Thomas** (00:34:54:18 - 00:35:14:11): I've had a similar experience, just all, all around the world, basically. What that man like. Yeah, I worked, before we worked together. I worked on. And as stupid as it sounds for spike TV, I worked on an MMA comedy show. It was. It was, it was so. **Chip** (00:35:14:11 - 00:35:18:16): Busy, all you had to say was spike TV. And I'm like, oh, Ma. Comedy show. Sure. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:35:18:16 - 00:35:26:03): No, it was it was, a wild time in my life. I think we did 166 episodes. **Chip** (00:35:26:06 - 00:35:31:22): Oh my God. Wait. So what? What was it? Just like clip funny clips where you just put sound effects on. **Thomas** (00:35:32:00 - 00:35:38:16): We we avoid it. We put some sound effects. No. Like, we we licensed, like, all these fights. **Chip** (00:35:38:20 - 00:35:39:10): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:35:39:12 - 00:35:48:05): And then we had, like, this animation team of, like, it's sometimes it was like 50 animators that were just like, all in there when we had it. **Chip** (00:35:48:07 - 00:35:51:00): You got spike TV, right? Like that's not. Yeah. Okay. Go ahead. **Thomas** (00:35:51:02 - 00:36:06:01): Yeah. We had a bunch of comedy writers that would go in there and like kind of, as the fights progressed, we created a bunch of graphics that they use in like, promos now of, like, people, you know, hitting each other and like, explosions going off. **Chip** (00:36:06:04 - 00:36:07:14): Sure. **Thomas** (00:36:07:16 - 00:36:29:19): But, we had John DiMaggio, who was Bender from Futurama, just like this was one of the he's a comedian, too, but he's just, like, one of the most talented voice actors in the world. And he would voice these things and he would give everybody a, you know, whatever. Like, you know, if it's a Scottish guy, he would do the Scottish accent and we would just make a bunch of jokes. And halfway through we turned these guys into cartoons and they're like either robots fighting each other or monsters or Godzilla or whatever. **Chip** (00:36:36:08 - 00:36:37:20): Yeah, it. **Thomas** (00:36:37:22 - 00:37:03:20): Sounds insane to say it out loud now, but it was a comedy show with our comedy writers room, and we were, had a bunch of the most, deadliest men in the world fighting each other. We were showcasing, like, their skills, the highlights. But, we did it with a little bit of humor, too. And it, it was a show that was just like, you know, it was it was crack for the spike TV audience. That's what they were looking for at the moment, I think. But purely because of that, like, it wasn't that I just knew, like the big stars. **Chip** (00:37:11:07 - 00:37:13:14): Oh, you had to know. Yeah, you had to get into it. **Thomas** (00:37:13:14 - 00:37:39:21): I was knee deep in like the up and comers, people who wouldn't be stars for five, ten years. Yeah. So like any time I would go watch like that, it's one of those things like where if you know that world. Yeah, you have a pretty good idea who's going to win at any given time. Like, you just like have the understanding of like what they've done before, like how they fought this kind of fight or like it was just something I had so much knowledge about because it was my job to know for so long. And I interviewed a ton of these guys. **Chip** (00:37:41:15 - 00:37:49:08): So you're saying I should get really into MMA and just start heavily betting on it? Is what you're saying? No, no. And I and I think lose and I. Think you should. **Thomas** (00:37:49:23 - 00:37:52:04): Get into MMA and start doing it. **Chip** (00:37:52:07 - 00:37:53:09): Oh actually I think. **Thomas** (00:37:53:11 - 00:38:02:16): You've got a run in you right now, but, you tell me why not? You'll never be in better shape, right? You're never going to be younger than you are right now. No. **Chip** (00:38:02:17 - 00:38:03:13): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:38:03:15 - 00:38:08:15): You have had no where to, like, vent your frustrations about, like. **Chip** (00:38:08:15 - 00:38:11:06): I have a lot of rage boiling up inside. You should do an MMA. Yeah, I think I might start. Either that or pickleball. Here's what it is. **Thomas** (00:38:17:09 - 00:38:17:21): Yeah. **Chip** (00:38:17:23 - 00:38:19:12): Here's the show. **Thomas** (00:38:19:14 - 00:38:20:07): Okay. **Chip** (00:38:20:09 - 00:38:25:02): Get it. Get the guys that spike TV back on the horn. All right? **Thomas** (00:38:25:04 - 00:38:26:10): Doesn't exist anymore. **Chip** (00:38:26:16 - 00:38:29:21): I know, but they're going to be back on the map because. **Thomas** (00:38:29:23 - 00:38:31:09): Entertainment cyclical. **Chip** (00:38:31:11 - 00:38:35:19): For MMA fighters. Okay. You ready for this? Yeah. For MMA fighters eight pickleball paddles, two rolls of duct tape. Okay. You just strap a paddle to the hand of each of the four MMA fighters, and then they just have to play pickleball against each other until they drop. I've seen I have seen videos of pickleball fights, like arguments where. **Thomas** (00:39:04:11 - 00:39:05:20): I bet, I bet they're out there. **Chip** (00:39:05:23 - 00:39:28:07): They're shoving, there's punching. There's one where somebody just laid somebody out like knocked out. Right? You get four and then any fighters in there and again I'm thinking, do they wear sneakers or are they just you know, shoeless just like they are in the Octagon? Maybe it is an octagon. Maybe it is. Okay, here's instead of like one net, it's like four nets. It's I've actually see something. **Thomas** (00:39:29:16 - 00:39:30:17): Like that before too. **Chip** (00:39:30:20 - 00:39:54:22): Yeah. It's an octagon shaped pickleball court. Then you have 16. Okay, okay. Let's let's get this order up 16 MMA fighters, 32 pickleball paddles, eight rolls of duct tape. About I'm going to say about six. Pickleball is going at any given time. And it's just anarchy in the giant octagon. I think that's. **Thomas** (00:39:55:00 - 00:40:04:17): I think that's grand. I think it's a big scale. I think that there's a lot of stuff I like about dude, I just heard back from the guys at spike TV. **Chip** (00:40:04:19 - 00:40:05:21): And, and. **Thomas** (00:40:05:23 - 00:40:07:01): And they said. What, what? We could reasonably get greenlit, what we have the budget for is a iPhone video, where I spank your bare little tush with the pickleball racket I already have. **Chip** (00:40:20:12 - 00:40:33:04): I if they could get that budget out there, I think I'd be in. I'd be ready to go. It's all right again. We quadrupled our videos last week. Yeah. Just by me taking my shirt off a little, little pickleball. Spanx. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:40:33:05 - 00:40:33:14): Oh, wait. **Chip** (00:40:33:14 - 00:40:38:02): Wait, you're you're not. That's that's what, that's what. Yeah, I am, I am yeah I yeah. Then we're good. Oh, good on you. Great. **Thomas** (00:40:40:23 - 00:40:41:15): All right. Well, if you. Want to see chipped hand trees. Red little tush. **Chip** (00:40:45:21 - 00:40:46:05): Yeah. After. **Thomas** (00:40:49:07 - 00:40:56:16): After we smack it with a paddle. You know, it is just a sunburnt pod at sun burnt pod on YouTube. On Instagram. **Chip** (00:40:58:19 - 00:41:16:23): That's what it just devolves to. Comedians. We've tried this. We have this great experiment of taking people to a, a beautiful look at one of the most beautiful places on earth to do comedy. And then it's it's just me getting spanked by pickleball and making it billions of views. Millions of views. **Thomas** (00:41:19:12 - 00:41:29:07): Every once in a while, an entertainment. You run into somebody who has not yet stepped out of the door, right? But they are on their way out the door. **Chip** (00:41:29:11 - 00:41:31:21): Yeah, yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:41:31:23 - 00:41:33:01): I remember. I was pitching. Pitching this executive a movie. And. And halfway through, he just kind of put his hand or his head in his hands. **Chip** (00:41:46:12 - 00:41:46:22): **Thomas** (00:41:47:00 - 00:42:12:22): And he was like, this sounds great. And it sounds like it would be good, but he's like, I don't think you can convince me that it would get more traction in the entertainment space period than Adele's celebrity agreeing to take a dump in a box on camera. **Chip** (00:42:13:00 - 00:42:15:03): That's a boxing video to watch right there. That's. **Thomas** (00:42:16:08 - 00:42:20:19): And that's how they started boxing there. But it was just like. It was like he was he was just. Completely overwhelmed and like, I've done it before. You're fighting the good fight. Yeah. At a certain point, you think you're making art with me. I have this this idea that, like, I'm doing something important by making these comedy shows, and we get to make the comedy shows, like. Yeah, there's something, altruistic about bringing a laugh into the world, and I'm just doing my best. And every step you make is filled with compromises. And, eventually, if somebody is fighting that good fight and has completely sold out, unless they had monumental success where they can just do whatever they want, they have to play this other game. And I could see it in this guy's eyes, like he'd either broken recently and was just like going through the motions to keep the job, or I was there the moment he broke and had the realization that like a YouTube video of Brian Austin Grand relieving himself in a shoe box would probably be a bigger cultural moment than whatever this, you know, this, this slow burn thriller. I was pitching him with me. Yeah, yeah. And that is true. But if you're going to keep fighting the fight, you have to not acknowledge it. You can't. You can't believe it. You got to keep going. But, **Chip** (00:43:43:23 - 00:43:54:21): I get it. I, by the way, you're preaching to the choir. You were talking to the guy who I just under a decade ago, got his first TV writing job on NBC. **Thomas** (00:43:55:00 - 00:43:56:02): Yep. **Chip** (00:43:56:03 - 00:44:23:10): And then less than a month later, he was down the hall in the men's room, assistant directing a sketch he wrote about a talking toilet. So, I, you know, you're I get it. I understand how how the entertainment industry works out. I'm in there. The acoustics in that men's room could could I? You could hear my spine rattle, like, just with shaking. He's just. I'm like, that's not the way the toilet talks. Like I'm talking to the woman, the camera woman. And they they they painted it up and the apps are there and and it's just like, you know, the toilet and like, we had a pulley system. There was a there was a pulley system we made for this talking toilet. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:44:42:04 - 00:44:45:08): Yeah. Toilets don't just talk cheap. **Chip** (00:44:45:10 - 00:44:50:18): They got have a very specific cadence to the way they express themselves. **Thomas** (00:44:50:20 - 00:45:03:03): So yeah, you're saying that's like, that's a bad thing, like, I, I was thrilled that we had a talking toilet. Yeah, I, I probably wasn't thrilled about the volume. We had to go back to the talking toilet. I was like, I wish there was something. And then there was also one thing. I don't know that we've ever talked about this because the it was just so fast paced. But I remember that talking toilet. Yeah. Oh, One of them we couldn't use because the toilet wasn't clean there. **Chip** (00:45:20:10 - 00:45:21:19): Oh that's right, there. **Thomas** (00:45:21:19 - 00:45:26:14): Was just there was fragments. And I remember like, I was I was speaking. **Chip** (00:45:26:14 - 00:45:27:12): To Brian Austin Green. Yeah. But. **Thomas** (00:45:30:16 - 00:45:36:15): Brian, I was Brian Austin Green stand in for this toilet sketch. Yeah. And, Well, we'll just we'll just leave. It at that. There was fragments, clearly visible in the camera that I'm just like, nobody saw these chunks of human use. **Chip** (00:45:47:01 - 00:45:48:06): Yeah. I guess. **Thomas** (00:45:48:06 - 00:45:51:05): When you're putting toilet paper rolls, his eyes and. Lipstick on that stick. **Chip** (00:45:52:22 - 00:46:11:05): On the thing and. Yeah. And it's like, maybe. And it's just there was a meeting. There was just so, you know how television entertainment works, ladies. You know, I mean, there was an executive level meeting at Nbcuniversal, and they're like, guys, the talking toilet sketch is great, but we just can't show it because there are human fragments on that. We cannot show. That was a high level meeting in the same studio that brought you Jerry Springer and The Maury Povich Show. And Saturday Night Live. **Thomas** (00:46:22:07 - 00:46:22:22): And The Tonight. Show. Yes. It was, You know, I remember being in. The screening where, like, one of our bosses, bosses or whatever. It's just like, what's that? That was like, what's what? It's like. Right there on. The in the in the bowl. Yeah. We're probably. Not going to be able to use this one. We got to figure out some more content for the week. **Chip** (00:46:52:12 - 00:47:04:02): It's just like you're like at Mission Control, and you just find a, like a, a UFO or something. You're like, that's. We have trouble, Lady Sherman. Call it. Get on the line with the president. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:47:04:04 - 00:47:13:21): Well, that's been a fun trip down memory lane. Yeah, but as often happens in life, that show died. **Chip** (00:47:14:02 - 00:47:14:14): Yes. **Thomas** (00:47:14:14 - 00:47:16:19): Not unlike a story. Yeah. Chip Chantry is going to tell us about. Yeah, that, that that broke this week. And the cruise world. **Chip** (00:47:23:13 - 00:47:45:08): Crazy story. Sad story. And, don't make fun of it. There was a story that, it was the diamond Princess cruise ship. I believe it's called the Diamond Princess. Princess cruise lines. These people were on a 19 day cruise through Asia, through Taiwan, Korea and Japan. I think I'm assuming South. I'm assuming South Korea. That's my guess. They just said Korea. I'm assuming the southern part, that is. That is just my guess. **Thomas** (00:47:49:18 - 00:47:52:02): I think that's the safe, the safe ocean to be in. **Chip** (00:47:52:05 - 00:47:54:06): I feel like you don't dock in Pyongyang. **Thomas** (00:47:54:07 - 00:47:56:13): You don't dock and undock in Pyongyang. **Chip** (00:47:56:14 - 00:48:21:01): No, you dock, but then that's it, right? Yeah. So they're in the middle of this 19 day cruise, which that says it's a long cruise to me, I don't know, 90 days to over two weeks. So you do the math. Apparently, from what I understand, the people on the crew, the passengers received an email one day in the middle of this cruise that the captain of the cruise ship was no longer with us. He, let's just say he disembarked life. He unfortunately passed away. Yeah, I had a medical emergency passed away. And they just got an email. They're like, hey, unfortunately, this happened, Everything's cool. We have a new captain. They were docked, I think, in Taiwan. Maybe. So they were. They were able to get a new captain in there. Like the schedule remains the same. This guy from all accounts, was, seems like a great, great guy. Very well respected cruise ship captain, but, but, hey, we're moving on with the new captain. Unfortunately, you know, we've lost him, so, which is. That's a crazy email to get. **Thomas** (00:48:58:15 - 00:49:00:18): It's a big announcement on a ship. Yep. **Chip** (00:49:00:20 - 00:49:13:21): Yeah, it is a it is a large announcement on a ship. So then we were thinking, like, I mean, how were these people feel? Like if I was in the middle of the ocean, I get, like, an email. I'm like, the the captain was like, oh, my God. Like, there's a new guy now at the helm. Yeah. So my mind would be racing. My mind would be racing anyway. Just the fact that we're in the middle of the ocean on a cruise ship, like I'm not. I'm already a little nervous. Yeah. So then you and I were thinking, like, what other announcements could be made that would be, like, horrifying or, like, really throw us for a loop. So, Thomas and I came up with a list of the worst announcements that a captain can make on a cruise ship. **Thomas** (00:49:43:10 - 00:49:48:08): Here are 12 announcements that would be worse to hear than that. **Chip** (00:49:48:10 - 00:49:55:17): This is your captain speaking. Hey, do you guys like hurricanes? **Thomas** (00:49:55:19 - 00:50:04:12): Number 11, due to unforeseen circumstances, starting immediately, we will be rationing Imodium a day. **Chip** (00:50:04:14 - 00:50:12:23): Number ten. Good afternoon. Passengers, this is your captain speaking. Hey, starboard is the left. Right. **Thomas** (00:50:13:01 - 00:50:14:16): That captain doesn't know what he's doing. Yep. Yeah. No he doesn't. Number nine. Ding ding. Captain's horny. **Chip** (00:50:23:19 - 00:50:36:15): That might be my favorite. That's my favorite. Okay. Number eight. Sorry to wake everyone up in the middle of the night, but, if you get up on the Lido deck right now, you can experience the real Titanic experience. Don't tell. **Thomas** (00:50:39:17 - 00:50:41:13): That's. That's a bad message ship. **Chip** (00:50:41:14 - 00:50:42:06): Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:50:42:06 - 00:50:50:19): Good afternoon. The captain refuses to leave port until someone can explain Bitcoin to him in a way that makes sense. **Chip** (00:50:50:21 - 00:51:01:06): You're never on docking. You're never that stuff. Good morning passengers. Today's theme on the cruise is nobody use the toilets. **Thomas** (00:51:01:08 - 00:51:03:11): It sounds like they're covered up for something else. **Chip** (00:51:03:12 - 00:51:05:09): Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:51:05:11 - 00:51:06:13): How about. The perverts have. Become violent? **Chip** (00:51:11:17 - 00:51:16:02): Who are the perverts? And what are they doing to become violent? That's just that. It's a bad message to get. It's a really bad one to get. Yeah. Maybe as bad as this one. We wish everyone a restful, peaceful night. Especially those of you who had the tilapia. Oh, no. No. **Thomas** (00:51:35:05 - 00:51:38:04): The specific shout out. There was something wrong with that tilapia. **Chip** (00:51:38:04 - 00:51:40:00): Yep. There was, there was, **Thomas** (00:51:40:02 - 00:51:54:02): A number three. Good afternoon. Passengers. The employee who was wearing the SpongeBob costume has been found murdered. If you see a SpongeBob on board, start praying. **Chip** (00:51:54:04 - 00:51:56:14): He taken his SpongeBob skin. Thomas. Oh, I know. That's that's horrifying. This is very scary. Yeah, he is Hannibal Lecter of the cartoon world. All right, number two, as we leave port in Galveston, Texas, we wish to welcome all of our new passengers, including the members of Kid Rock's Bar, with a bar themed cruise. **Thomas** (00:52:17:17 - 00:52:20:05): Galveston keeps coming up on the podcast. Joe really. **Chip** (00:52:20:05 - 00:52:21:22): Does. **Thomas** (00:52:21:23 - 00:52:35:07): And the number one worst thing I think any cruise ship goer could hear in the middle of their cruise. Ladies and gentlemen, we regret to inform you that Chip Chantry. His performance has been canceled tonight. **Chip** (00:52:35:09 - 00:52:40:15): Just sadness. Thomas. That's the worst one right there. That's the worst, by the way. Why? What happened to me? **Thomas** (00:52:40:15 - 00:52:42:09): I don't want to think you might have had the tilapia. **Chip** (00:52:42:15 - 00:52:45:20): I'm I think I have this you. I think that's what happened. You've had a. **Thomas** (00:52:46:09 - 00:52:49:02): Number of fish related cancellations throughout the year. Ship. **Chip** (00:52:49:04 - 00:52:54:17): Lot of fish related cancellations. Just just seafood in me. Yeah. Not great for comedy. **Thomas** (00:52:54:18 - 00:53:06:19): Not great for comedy. Well, speaking of, not great for comedy, this has been the sunburn podcast. We had a great time. Join us next time. You can follow us everywhere on at Sunburnt Pod. **Chip** (00:53:06:22 - 00:53:22:03): Just think about, Chip Gentry's Thanksgiving A Paradise this Thanksgiving. Why not come out to Hawaii with us? We're going to a great week. It's going to be a lot of fun. We got all the fun. We are going to be taping pickleball paddles to our hands all week. Come with us. And, yeah. That's it. Thomas. Hope you're ready. **Thomas** (00:53:23:16 - 00:53:47:11): And if the check comes through from spike TV, you get to see Chip's little red tush. Shot on an iPhone, a vertical video on TikTok, Instagram. Potentially. We can even repost it on at Sunburnt Pod. So you want to make sure to follow us there? Until next time, stay burnt. Front desk. **Chip** (00:53:47:13 - 00:53:53:02): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. Could somebody come up and refill my water bed? **Thomas** (00:53:53:04 - 00:53:55:20): We don't have any water beds. **Chip** (00:53:55:22 - 00:54:01:18): Oh. Well, then I'm going to need some towels. Lots of towels.